<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52199]]></link><description><![CDATA[The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aye. Fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live. At least awhile... And dying in your beds, many years ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aye. Fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live. At least awhile... And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance -- just one chance -- to come back here and tell our enemies that they make take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me also remind you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14784]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me also remind you that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can do it for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can do it for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea came to me in a dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29202]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea came to me in a dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9422]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little labour, much health. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49048]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little labour, much health.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whom they have injured they also hate. [Lat., Quos laeserunt et oderunt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whom they have injured they also hate. [Lat., Quos laeserunt et oderunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48090]]></link><description><![CDATA[If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is something I never dreamed I would experience. You see Katrina. You see Rita. But you never think it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42032]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is something I never dreamed I would experience. You see Katrina. You see Rita. But you never think it can happen it to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18714]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn't matter if the room ahs been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years - we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on. . -Sharon Salzberg.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't know how they live, where they go, how many of them there are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39743]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't know how they live, where they go, how many of them there are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pray Him to give you what the Scriptures call "an honest and good heart," or "a perfect heart;" and, without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pray Him to give you what the Scriptures call "an honest and good heart," or "a perfect heart;" and, without waiting, begin at once to obey Him with the best heart you have. Any obedience is better than none. You have to seek His face; obedience is the only way of seeing Him. All your duties are obediences. To do what He bids is to obey Him, and to obey Him is to approach Him. Every act of obedience is an approach -- an approach to Him who is not far off, though He seems so, but close behind this visible screen of things hiding Him from us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23856]]></link><description><![CDATA[The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59646]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once the people begin to reason, all is lost ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once the people begin to reason, all is lost]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25926]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every artist writes his own autobiography. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every artist writes his own autobiography.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16808]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm learning who I can trust and who I can't. I can't believe he did that to me. He turned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41463]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm learning who I can trust and who I can't. I can't believe he did that to me. He turned right into me with the right front (wheel). Now I've been Cheever-ed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28061]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54929]]></link><description><![CDATA[In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made difference? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't need to hug Indonesians to death. But the US does need to be more even-handed in its dealings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33553]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't need to hug Indonesians to death. But the US does need to be more even-handed in its dealings in the Middle East, [and] more sophisticated in its dealings with the Muslim world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tenderness is a virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tenderness is a virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time. -M. Scott Peck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25192]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time. -M. Scott Peck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm glad they've been able to pull together after consolidation. It seems like they have good teachers at both middle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37297]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm glad they've been able to pull together after consolidation. It seems like they have good teachers at both middle schools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twere sweet to sink in death for Truth and Freedom! Yes, who would hesitate, for who could bear  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45800]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twere sweet to sink in death for Truth and Freedom! Yes, who would hesitate, for who could bear  The living degradation we may know   If we do dread death for a sacred cause?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60462]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have called for the boycott of the parliamentary elections because Lebanon is under Syrian control. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42614]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have called for the boycott of the parliamentary elections because Lebanon is under Syrian control.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind is bearing me across the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind is bearing me across the sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass and His Purchaser A MAN wished to purchase an Ass, and agreed with its owner thathe should try ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1507]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and His Purchaser A MAN wished to purchase an Ass, and agreed with its owner thathe should try out the animal before he bought him. He took theAss home and put him in the straw-yard with his other Asses, uponwhich the new animal left all the others and at once joined theone that was most idle and the greatest eater of them all. Seeing this, the man put a halter on him and led him back to hisowner. On being asked how, in so short a time, he could havemade a trial of him, he answered, I do not need a trial; I knowthat he will be just the same as the one he chose for hiscompanion. A man is known by the company he keeps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Short History of Myth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39491]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Short History of Myth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["All honor to him who shall win the prize," The world has cried for a thousand years;  But to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14925]]></link><description><![CDATA["All honor to him who shall win the prize," The world has cried for a thousand years;  But to him who tries and fails and dies,   I give great honor and glory and tears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9388]]></link><description><![CDATA[The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sence I've ben here, I've hired a chap to look about for me, To git me a transplantable an' thrifty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2498]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sence I've ben here, I've hired a chap to look about for me, To git me a transplantable an' thrifty fem'ly-tree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Master, master, old news! And such news as you never heard of! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Master, master, old news! And such news as you never heard of!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People want a quick fix, ... They want immediate results. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39748]]></link><description><![CDATA[People want a quick fix, ... They want immediate results.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12244]]></link><description><![CDATA[At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent. -Golda Meir.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41048]]></link><description><![CDATA[I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4259]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we did everything tonight but win on the scoreboard. I think we dominated a large portion of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37601]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we did everything tonight but win on the scoreboard. I think we dominated a large portion of the game, so you know we gave up a bad goal in the beginning. We have to put ourselves in a better position where we have to defend a lead in the last ten minutes rather than try to come back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37601</guid></item></channel></rss>